Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The NRA is a domestic terrorist network

Some residents of the Connecticut community devastated
by December's school shooting said they're outraged over robocalls
they've received from the National Rifle Association only three months
after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook
Elementary School.

Newtown residents said the automated calls from the NRA began last
week and urge people to tell their state legislators to oppose gun
control proposals. Some also said they received postcards from the NRA
supporting gun owners' rights.

"It's ridiculous and insensitive," Newtown resident Dan O'Donnell
told Hartford-area NBC affiliate WVIT-TV, one of several media
organizations to report about the robocalls. "I can't believe an
organization would be so focused on the rights of gun owners with no
consideration for the losses this town suffered."

A message seeking comment was left Monday at the NRA's headquarters in Fairfax, Va.

"I received one of these," Newtown resident Christopher Wenis wrote
on Facebook Thursday afternoon. "I was insulted and offended." Wenis
told The Huffington Post in an interview Friday night that in the 36
hours since he first posted his response, he received two more robocalls
from the NRA, one later on Thursday night and one on Friday evening.

"I've got a 5-year-old son who went to preschool on the Sandy Hook
Elementary School campus," Wenis explained. "And this was a really hard
week for me on a lot of levels. These calls were the very last thing I
needed."

Wenis said that he called the NRA twice to request that his name be
placed on a "Do Not Call List" -- first on Tuesday and again Thursday.
He said an NRA phone operator assured him he would be removed from NRA
call lists. But the calls kept coming. By Friday night, Wenis said, he
was desperate to be left in peace.

These twisted shitstains are laughing out loud about all the publicity they're getting, just as they leered when they concocted the plan.

“As a tactic, I think it’s backfiring on the NRA,” said State Rep. Dan
Carter, a Republican who reps Newtown. “Most the of the calls that have
come in have been pro gun-control.”

Connecticut’s outraged senators, Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal,
demanded that the NRA “cease and desist” said the gun group “stooped to a
new low.”

“Put yourself in the shoes of a victim’s family member who gets calls
at dinnertime asking them to support more assault weapons in our school
and on our streets,” the senators wrote in a letter to NRA chief Wayne
LaPierre.

“In a community that’s still very much in crisis, to be making these
calls opens a wound that these families are still trying hard to heal.”

There is just no sewer too low for LaPierre and the NRA to slither into.

Once again for the record: I fully support both the Second (and the First) Amendment. I am a longtime gun owner but have never been a member of the NRA, and never will be. Among the various legislative proposals under consideration by the few sane members of Congress, I would support legislation registering my guns in a national database without a trace of the Neanderthal paranoia about the government having that data.

And when tools like Ted Carnival Cruz say, "what part of 'shall not be infringed' don't you understand", my response is: What part of "well-regulated militia" don't YOU understand? It should have been Dianne Feinstein's response as well.

There is only one way to deal with bullies, and that's to demonstrate an equivalent amount of resistance to them. They do not, will not ever understand anything else.

2 comments:

You CLAIM to support the First and Second Amendments, but declare those exercising freedom of speech to support the right to keep and bear arms to be terrorists. Either you are a liar or utterly stupid -- I know which one I believe to be the case, but I will allow that either could be true.